conventionalist

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Still, beyond collectability, style and functionality, Eastside Golf’s founders believe there are bigger takeaways for the conventionalist sport.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022

Laugh at him as a limited man, a moralist, conventionalist, an opportunist, a formalist.

From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The conventionalist would seek it in moral obliquity; the radical, in a temperament that is irked by the superficialities that comprise so large a part of conventional standards.

From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay

He was very far, however, from being the conventionalist of those days, and the younger students used to look greatly askance at him.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

He would have been a conventionalist and epicurean, unless he had been a seer.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various